Swearing-in of NPP Gov't Appointees - near blows....

..... at Akuapem Dist. Assembly

The 'Free Press', an independent newspaper reports that tempers flared high among the Akuapem South District Assembly members when the NDC faction objected to the positioning of the 18 appointees for the swearing-in ceremony.

When the District Co-ordinating Director, Ms Modesta Buckman asked that the appointees stand in line facing the Chairman of the Community Tribunal, Mrs Georgina Mensah Datsa to conduct the swearing-in ceremony, the NDC faction raised hell that the appointees rather face the crowd without which they (the NDC members) would not recognise the ceremony as valid.

Confusion broke out as the NPP faction, joined by the appointees, countered that the NDC had sinister motives for making issues out of such trivialities, resulting in near exchange of blows.

The Member of Parliament for the area, Hon Seth Dankwa Wiafe and Ms Datsa tried to cool down tempers and the swearing-in ceremony commenced after both sides agreed that the appointees could be sworn-in at where each stood in the hall.